A senior British pilot claims he may have solved the mystery of what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Boeing 777 captain Simon Hardy also believes he knows where the doomed aircraft came to rest, following a six month examination of flight data. Using a unique mathematical technique, Hardy pinpoints the location of the aircraft to 100 nautical miles away from where the Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) is currently carrying out it search, the Sunday Times reports. Hardy also told the newspaper he believes pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah performed a final “emotional” fly-past of Penang island, before landing the plane on water, where it sank intact.

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has done what most girls wouldn’t dare to do and has chopped off all of her locks – and we love it. The 31-year-old singer has pretty much been in hiding since the X Factor final, gallivanting around with hubby Jean-Bernard Versini on holiday and keeping a low profile. Posting a picture of the back of her hair to give her fans the full view, she tweeted: ‘I ❤️ the 70’s #newdo colour is @lorealparisuk Casting Creme Gloss Berry Red 565.

WHEN controversial car dealer Richard Burbage end up in a row with his wife in a fast food restaurant he didn't appreciate it when another customer tried to intervene to calm things down. Instead the angry 41-year-old tried to attack the man - only to discover his intended victim was a martial arts expert. As a result Burbage, currently at the centre of a major police and trading standards investigation following complaints about second hand cars, ended up being arrested and appearing in court charged with assault. The drama happened after Burbage and his wife Lorraine had been to a football match on a Sunday afternoon.

It was the spot in which she spent her final night as a member of the Middleton clan so when the Goring Hotel asked the Duchess of Cambridge to join them for its 105th birthday celebrations, it was clearly an invitation she couldn't refuse. The Duchess, who is seven months pregnant, was pictured leaving the five-star London property at lunchtime following the birthday reception which was also held to mark the lobby's recent facelift.

It's something that perpetually intrigues because the longer I live in America, the more different I think our two nations are and the more I feel Brits misunderstand the US, and vice versa. Interestingly, the hardest things to reconcile seem to be America's role in the world, what it should and should not be, and America's relationship with guns. One American businessman suggested he felt he was repeatedly tripped up by the continuing resentment of the invasion of Iraq which still sours British perceptions of America. What's less clear to Brits is what they want from America today.

A million women were raped by Allied soldiers in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II, a new books claims. ‘When The Soldiers Came,’ by historian Miriam Gebhardt, is hailed as the definitive account of the treatment meted out to the defeated women of Nazi Germany which they remained silent about for decades out of shame and humiliaton. 'At the very least 860,000 women and girls - and also men and young boys - were raped by the occupying Allied soldiers and their helpers. A new book claims Allied troops raped German women during the Second World War by manipulating them with gifts of chocolate and cigarettes.

While people such as John Lennon and William Shakespeare remain well known Brits, other once-famous names - including a number of eminent Cambridge alumni - are in danger of being forgotten. Some 29 per cent of Brits did not know that Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, with 15 per cent thinking he created the character of famous spy James Bond.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush distanced himself from his family on Monday as he courted senior citizens in Nevada, the first stop in a national tour aimed at key states on the presidential primary calendar.

Vladimir Putin has been top dog in the Russian Federation since the turn of the millennium, despite the fact that for four of those years he was not even the President. Having assumed office as Acting President on December 31, 1999, following Boris Yeltsin’s resignation, Putin was then elected to two four-year terms before he stepped down to allow his protege Dmitry Medvedev to take over. Such has been Putin’s dominance over the nation that he has been accused of moving Russia from the liberal democracy established following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 back towards an autocratic state. Accusations of vote-rigging at elections, the passing of anti-liberal laws and the invasion of neighbouring territories in Ukraine and Georgia have even led many political commentators to label Putin as a modern-day dictator.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland have captured the first photograph of light behaving as both a wave and a particle. “This experiment demonstrates that, for the first time ever, we can film quantum mechanics—and its paradoxical nature—directly," Fabrizio Carbone, who led the research team that designed the technique to capture the breakthrough image, said in a statement. The team was able to capture the image by first shooting a pulse of laser light at a tiny metal wire, causing the light to travel in waves back and forth along the length of the wire. The waves of light on the wire were made up of particles called photons, and when the electrons crashed into the photons, they either sped up or slowed down.

Despite the lethal potential of Hulk and the couple's many other dogs, three-year-old Jordan has grown up with them within arm's reach. Mrs Grennan, 24, who is herself dwarfed by 17-month-old Hulk, said the American pit bull terrier breed is misunderstood. Mr Grennan, a former boxer, formed the company 10 years ago with just two dogs after suffering a hand injury that ended his career. These include more than more than a dozen highly trained pit bulls and a single chihuahua.

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